Hi, Is it possible that your sound card was held busy by another process, maybe by Pulseaudio running under a different user? The Pulse ALSA plugin usually prevents applications from opening the hardware device (routing them through Pulse instead). Laurentiu On Mon, Sep 18, 2017, at 12:37, mycomp at tutanota.com wrote: > > Can anyone please help with the following problem ? > > The sound on a desktop PC running Debian Jessie has stopped > working - no> sound from any websites (e.g. BBC or YouTube) and trying to play a > standard sound file I have saved which is used to test the sound with> vlc gives: > > Audio output failed: > The audio device "default" could not be used: > Device or resource busy. > > and in the terminal window it says: > > VLC media player 2.2.6 Umbrella (revision 2.2.6-0-g1aae78981c) > [00000000013f0608] pulse audio output error: PulseAudio server > connection failure: Connection refused > [0000000001318118] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default > interface.> Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. > [00000000013f0608] alsa audio output error: cannot open ALSA device > "default": Device or resource busy > [00000000013f0608] core audio output error: module not functional > [00007fc2a8c02b08] core decoder error: failed to create audio output > > The sound was then suddenly regained. > > The sound has now been suddenly lost again. > > Loose wiring is not suspected. > > The only file in /etc/pulse is client.conf > > -- > Securely sent with Tutanota. Claim your encrypted mailbox today! > https://tutanota.com > _________________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20170918/4abe594d/attachment-0001.html>
